Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f35fc3c32e4b8f24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-31 18:59:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 7a3915a66dc7ece087889d7cb91d9eac SHA-1: 6faddc17c433ea7084398cf86b6d9a566f850b63 SHA-256: f35fc3c32e4b8f24be4f872ad02387c9a732fa9a9d21a89f37625ed94ffd81cc
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing pretext, likely aiming to trick users into calling a fraudulent number.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://dragonera.cn/admin/userfiles/file/segixu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076024ae730e---zemodipewudumewoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rakkhunnursinghome.com/user_img/files/bebivanarodozofebelan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tpfss2clt7kn4oamjku4s4ghdd/14426210585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadirumshootingstars.com/userfiles/file///bavidinag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0e042fb5d13d4ce8c7a10c63e559225/71884324061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/20210624162457819352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://colakcivi.com/userfiles/file/75795269911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbv73f34b7qkup6k2i8at63tf6/74099098225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81ace7fd435aac56e3524835b8b9ba37/sokivos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ajl97sjlhmq358o0brii58h493/82304944029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stancijanegrin.com/UserFiles/files/88051810334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenfountains.com/uplds/file/77541623547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f51c6a059a48eb896a0781818542e011/berajexovisaxefiwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezclasssites.com/var/wwww/dev-ezclasssites-com/data/files/burugatazovonumakodixiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherishedmomentphotos.com/clients/8/84/84fe84b553acfcd191e166b7401b6f02/File/bidijoweje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa71dc47a5---posijowevinazikasuzoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b6ade3487---75482825130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubesolbra.com/uploads/files/70768231548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapremipariwar.org/userfiles/file/95065528520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1835ae1e733a99bacffaf578a37022f3/51054484651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasaitogo.com/uploads/files/50437937331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sll2r87pil02ab148sgatrg8pu/garegovabupodegobepuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021070612064391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=fha+chapter+13+discharge+guidelinesPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF42 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010754.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10754 17088 bytes
SHA-256: 4af3d0b02487bc9aafd63cbd20a41b4bb5c15a925072a9acbc932afaf1f3ef8f
font_02_sfnt_off000133da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133DA 10972 bytes
SHA-256: eaa9ba3d15c8618b0e683469008660ed1e8ea63a1620f37e2ea67ac66828e030